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  Unit Name	Type of Unit	Containing Unit (and Type)
  WEST DEREHAM	Manor	WATLINGTON CP/AP (Parish-level Unit)

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• If you are looking for hills, rivers, castles... or pretty much anything other than the "places" where people live and lived, you need to look in our collection of Historical Gazetteers. This contains the complete text of three gazetteers published in the late 19th century — over 90,000 entries. Although there are no descriptive gazetteer entries for placenames exactly matching your search term (other than those already linked to "places"), the following entries mention "WEST DEREHAM":

  Place name	County	Entry	Source
  Beetley	Norfolk	Beetley , par., West Norfolk, 4 miles NW. of East Dereham, 1770 ac., pop. 341; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BILNEY (West)	Norfolk	West) , a parish in Freebridge-Lynn district, Norfolk; on the Lynn and Dereham railway, at Bilney station, 7 miles ESE of Kings	Imperial
  BRADENHAM (East)	Norfolk	Dereham. Post Town, West Bradenham, under Thetford. Acres, 2,340. Real property, £3,246. Pop., 399. Houses, 86. The property	Imperial
  Bradenham, West	Norfolk	Bradenham, West , par., W. Norfolk, 5½ miles SW. of East Dereham, 1682 ac., pop. 305; P.O.	Bartholomew
  BRADENHAM (West)	Norfolk	West) , a parish in Swaffham district, Norfolk; on the river Wissey, 3¼ miles S by W of Wendling r. station, and 5½ SW by W of East Dereham	Imperial
  Dereham, West	Norfolk	Dereham, West , par. and vil., W. Norfolk, 3 miles SE. of Downham, 3440 ac., pop. 560; P.O.; contains Dereham Park	Bartholomew
  DEREHAM (West)	Norfolk	DEREHAM (West) , a parish in Downham district, Norfolk; 3 miles E of Denver r. station, and 3 W by N of Stoke	Imperial
  DOWNHAM, or Downham-Market	Norfolk	West Dereham, Wereham, Wretton, Stoke-Ferry, Boughton, and Stradsett; and the sub-district of Wiggenhall, containing the parishes of Wiggenhall	Imperial
  MITFORD	Norfolk	Dereham, containing the parishes of East Dereham, Hoe, Scarning, Wendling, Little Fransham Longham, Gressenhall, and Beetley; the sub-district of Litcham, containing the parishes of Litcham, Mileham, Beeston-All Saints, Little Bittering, Kempston, Great Dunham, Little Dunham, Great Fransham, East Lexham, West	Imperial
  NORFOLK	Norfolk	Dereham, Swaffham, Walsham, Downham, Aylsham, Fakenham, and Wymondham; and there are about 770 smaller towns, villages, and hamlets. The chief seats are Sandringham House, Houghton Hall, Rainham Hall, Holkham Hall, Quidenham Hall, Costessey Hall, Gunton House, Honingham Hall, Kimberley Hall, Melton-Constable Hall, Merton Hall, Blickling Hall, Elmham Hall, Mannington Hall, North Repps Hall, Woodris ing Hall, Beeston Hall, Cranmer Hall, Gissing Hall, Ketteringham Hall, Knapton House, Langley Hall, Ormesby House, Oxborough Hall, Rackheath Hall, Sall House, Shadwell Court, West	Imperial
  NORWICH	Norfolk Suffolk	West Wymer. Coslany sub-district contains the parishes of St. Mary-at-Coslany, St. Michael-at-Coslany, St. George-Colegate, St. Martin-at-Oak, St. Augustine, and St. Clement, and the hamlet of Hellesdon. Pop. in 1851, 12, 881; in 1861, 13, 260. Houses, 3, 144. East Wymer sub-district contains the parishes of St. Paul, St. Saviour, St. Edmund, St. Simon and St. Jude, St. Peter-Hungate, St. Michael-at-Plea, St. Martin-at-Palace, St. Helen, and St. James, and the hamlet of Thorpe. Pop. in 1851, 13, 602; in 1861, 13, 641. Houses, 3,051. Conisford	Imperial
  WEREHAM	Norfolk	West Dereham monastery; and went, at the dissolution, as part of that monastery's possessions, to T. Guibon and W. Mynn	Imperial
  West Bradenham	Norfolk	West Bradenham , 5½ miles SW. of Dereham, Norfolk; P.O.; contains West Bradenham Hall , seat. See BRADENHAM, WEST.	Bartholomew
  West Dereham	Norfolk	West Dereham , 3 miles SE. of Downham Market, Norfolk; P.O. See DEREHAM, WEST.	Bartholomew

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